Category Archives: Recipes

I promised a few weeks ago that I would make a zucchini blossom risotto with saffron and crème fraîche – and I did! I had my dad over for dinner. Growing up, I spent every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday night … Continue reading …

Everyone who knows me knows I hate summer. Now, I have to admit that it’s growing on me. The office slows down. We travel. The fruits and tomatoes are in explosion. But really, once August rolls around, I’m done. After … Continue reading …

I am a devoted fan of the Betsy-Tacy books. I came to them late in life (they are considered, I would argue incorrectly, to be children’s books and so I deem discovery at twenty-eight to be late in the game), … Continue reading …

To me, zucchini blossoms are the unicorns of the vegetable world. There are so fleeting and hard-to-find, sometimes I’m not sure they exist. But when I do stumble across them, they are precious, delicate, expensive. I become covetous all over. … Continue reading …

A bonus recipe! I loved my peach and vanilla tarte tatin so much, I had to use my leftover peaches and vanilla sugar for something. I love this for breakfast with Greek yogurt or for dessert with ice cream (Vanilla! … Continue reading …

Mr. English and I spent sixteen perfect days in France this summer. It was my first vacation in a year, and I counted each perfect, sun-soaked, olive oil-drenched day one by one until finally the last, devastatingly, arrived. The first … Continue reading …